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Mathematics in School Mar 1999

Volume 28 Number 2


Editors John Bradshaw and Lesley Jones

Contents

Practical Mathematics Issue

Editorial John Bradshaw
Bridge Building: A Practical Mathematics Task
Practical Tasks   (PDF file 159 KB)
Ted Graham, Jenny Sharp and Wendy Maull
Up and Over Doug French
It's Worse in Verse! Part 1 John Hersee
Useless Activity Chris du Feu
Japanese-style Letter Folding
Geometry | Ratio   (PDF file 120 KB)
Jon Millington
Exploring Displacement-Time Graphs with the Texas Instruments Calculator Based Laboratory and a Motion Detector Ted Graham and Jenny Sharp
How Can Mathematics be Useful? Peter Huckstep
A Sketchpad Discovery Involving Areas of Inscribed Polygons Michael de Villiers
Stars as a Source of Surprise Greisy Winicki-Landman
Using Books to Construct Shapes on the Blackboard William Gibbs
Work in Progress: Addups Don Steward
Polya's Urn Tim Morland
Husks & Kernels Warwick Sawyer
It's Worse in Verse! Answers/Comments John Hersee
Filling the Gap
Tessellation | Regular polygons   (PDF file 181 KB)
Brian Beevers
A Future for Mathematics Part 2 Robert Barbour et al
Curiouser and Curiouser Helen Morris
The Creative Use of Odd Moments No. 13 Doug French
Letters  
Reviews  

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